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Programme:
Europe for Citizens
Identifier:
588848-CITIZ-1-2017-1-NL-CITIZ-REMEM
Title:
1968-2018 Do It Yourself - Create your own society
Summary
The project “1968-2018 Do it yourself–Create your own society” resulted in 3 events, each with a customised opening event accompanied by the traveling pop-up museum.The traveling museum existed of 3 parts to activate participants to reflect on how they and others can create their own European society:- “What if!? Pop-up museum”: fifty years after ‘68, this exhibition connected the past with the present: what has become of the ideals of ‘68 and where do we find this ‘spirit of 1968’ nowadays? The museum showed personal stories of ‘68ers’ from Eastern and Western Europe and daring ideas from today’s young thinkers in text, photo and video.- “What If!? Photo booth” in which all participants were invited to share their visions for the future of Europe. The reactions were shown in a slideshow on the outside of the Photo booth and presented on the website, resulting in a growing crowdsourced overview of ‘What European Citizens Want’.- “What If!? Balance game”: participants were invited to play against each other, placing wooden dolls on opposing values printed on the balancing tower. The game resulted in many hilarious balancing acts and exciting discussions on different European values. Because, isn't that what our democratic system is, a balance game?Event 1On 8 March ‘68 students in Poland took the streets to protest censorship and demand freedom of press. Although they were violently crushed, these demonstrations were an important prelude to the successful pro-democracy movements in Poland in later years. Exactly 50 years after the protest our opening event took place: in “the Big Polish 8 March Media Debate” journalists from the ’68-generation from the left and the right discussed the state of the polarized media with young journalists from left and right. Some journalists in Poland refuse to pronounce each other’s names, let alone understand each other’s world views. What does that do to society? What responsibility do the journalists have themselves? The event resulted in lively discussions on the spot that continued in online media.Event 2‘The most important thing of ‘68 was the process of change itself.’ The topic of the opening event in NL was innovative ways to create change. Alain Geismar, one of the leading activist of the May ’68 revolts in Paris, shared his witness accounts of the revolution and looked into the effects. Young thinkers and activists from all over Europe shared their inspiring ideas for the future. What are their ideas to smash the present-day status-quo? The event –part of the Forum on EU Culture– resulted in interesting discussions between the panel and the audience. The pop-up museum was part of 3 other events in the Netherlands: ‘The Biggest Knowledge Festival of The Netherlands’ in Deventer; ‘Cultural Capital of the EU’ in Leeuwarden; and the philosophical ‘Brainwash Festival’ and the opening of the cultural year ‘Uitmarkt’ in Amsterdam. Visitors actively participated in the balance game and photo booth during the events.Event 3There is a Prague of before ‘68 and a Prague of after ‘68. The revolutionary year is still a trauma for many Czechs and Slovaks alike. The year started in a positive vibe: the regime loosened up and the Prague Spring blossomed. Until Moscow occupied with hundreds of thousands Warsaw Pact troops the country. In the summer of 2018, exactly 50 years after this pivotal year, we opened the WHAT IF!? Pop-Up Museum on the spirit of ‘68 in the Prague cinema BIO|Oko. During the opening weekend there were special activities in which the audience could participate. Visitors could make their very own ‘propaganda animation’ based on iconic images of 1968 with the help of the Dutch design collective Propaganda by the People. High school kids followed a workshop and there was a lecture of Jiri Kolda, who was shot during the occupation.www.ironcurtainproject.eu/en/the-events
Start Date:
01-01-2018
End Date:
30-06-2019
Duration in months:
18
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Year (Call):
2017
Country:
20000973
20000986
20000872
Activity:
Strand1: European Remembrance
Address:
TOLHUISTUIN 5
Postal Code:
1031 CL
Region:
Zuid-Holland
City:
AMSTERDAM
PIC:
938478202
Address:
UTRECHTSEDWARSSTRAAT, 95
Postal Code:
1017 WD
Region:
Noord-Holland
City:
AMSTERDAM
PIC:
913496240
Address:
UL. NARBUTTA 29
Postal Code:
02 536
Region:
Mazowieckie
City:
WARSZAWA
PIC:
938295842
Address:
GALCZYNSKIEGO 7
Postal Code:
00-362
Region:
Mazowieckie
City:
WARSAW
PIC:
913415536
Address:
BRNENSKA 1083/49
Postal Code:
692 01
Region:
Jihomoravský kraj
City:
MIKULOV
PIC:
930751958
Address:
STEPANSKA 704/61 NOVE MESTO
Postal Code:
110 00
Region:
Hlavní město Praha
City:
PRAHA 1
PIC:
931174296
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